Date of death: 5 December 902×3.Place of
death: Unknown.An early calendar gives 5 December
as the date of her death ["Quinta tenet ueram dominam
Angloram Ealhswithe." Hampson (1841) 1: 419]. The year
is uncertain. The earliest traceable tradition from the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle appears to give the date 904 ["&
Ealhswið gefor þy ilcan geare." ASC(A) s.a. 905
(orig. 904); "Eodem etiam anno Alchsuuytha regina, mater
regis Eadwardi, decessit." Ann. S. Neots s.a. 904 (p.
144)], while the Mercian Register gives 902 ["Her
Ealhswið forðferde." ASC(C) s.a. 902 (Mercian
Register)]. Because the Mercian Register began the year at
Midwinter while the Chronicle appears to have used
Indictional dating, which began the year on previous 24 September
(so that the Chronicle's 5 December "904"
would actually be 5 December 903 by our current calendar), these
two sources actually disagree by only one year. It is difficult
to decide between them. Angus conjectured that the blank annals
in the Chronicle were wrongly placed and that the date
of the Mercian Register is right here, but that is not certain
[Angus (1938), 204-6].

Bibliography

ASC = Charles Plummer, Two of the Saxon
Chronicles parallel, based on the earlier edition by John
Earle, 2 vols. (Oxford, 1892-9). ASC(A) indicates the
"A" manuscript of the chronicle, and similarly for the
other manuscripts.